“Absolument Dé-bor-dée!” (“Absolutely Snowed Under”), a book which came out last year, described how state employees compete to do nothing at work.
去年出版的一本书《绝对压倒（Absolument Dé-bor-dée!） 》描述了，法国的公务员为了“无所事事”而做了怎样的斗争。
Scientists now have to compete for funding, and do not share information among themselves.
科学家们现在不得不为了资金而相互竞争，彼此间不共享信息。
You must play to your strengths; others will be playing to their strengths, and it will be hard for you to compete if you don’t do the same.
你必须充分利用你的实力，因为别人也在利用他们的实力。如果你不这么做，那么你将很难去与别人进行竞争。
A little stress can do us good-it pushes us to compete and innovate.
一些小的压力对于我们是有好处的，它能让我们有竞争力和活力。
To compete, Mercedes and BMW may have to do the unthinkable and join forces-either that, or risk their brands by forming partnerships with high-volume producers.
为了竞争，梅赛德斯公司和宝马公司或许得出其不意，联合起来——这是一种办法，另一种办法是通过与销量高的生产者合伙，拿它们的牌子搏一把。
Think of it in terms of personal success: do you really need to compete with your peers in order to be a success?
从个人成功的角度想一想：难道你的成功真的需要建立在与同行竞争的基础上吗？
In the modern age, these things are generally too complicated for a single person to do to a standard where the result can compete with off-the-shelf components.
在现代，这些东西对于个人来说通常是太复杂而且不可能完成一个可与现有产品竞争的标准。
Men compete more with each other than females do, because of the male strategy to "live hard, die young 'which means they may invest less in immunity."
男性彼此之间的竞争比女性之间的竞争要激烈得多，因为男性“今朝有酒今朝醉，明日愁来明日愁”的生存策略意味着他们在免疫力上投入较少。
“Free software doesn't have to compete as commercial vendors do,” he says, “so we shouldn't create artificial barriers where none need exist.”
“自由软件不必以商业软件供应商的方式去竞争，”他说，“因此我们不应该人为地制造本不存在的障碍。”
“Free software doesn't have to compete as commercial vendors do, ” he says, “so we shouldn't create artificial barriers where none need exist.”
“自由软件不必以商业软件供应商的方式去竞争，”他说，“因此我们不应该人为地制造本不存在的障碍。”
Google isn't trying to compete with a standard OS, they're trying to help users realize that for the majority of computing they do, they don't need one in the first place.
Google并不是要与标准的操作系统相竞争，它是想让用户在做大多数的计算的时候能够想到这一点，不要首先使用。
Others will be playing to their strengths, and it will be hard for you to compete if you don't do the same.
如果你不这么做，那么你将很难去与别人进行竞争。
Sometimes two reasons to do the same thing seem to compete with one another
噢，那不一定！有时2个理由去做同样的事情，似乎与另一个理由相互竞争，代替让人更想去做的，是它可能让人们不怎么愿意去做。
I want you to learn; I do not have you compete against your classmates.
我希望你们去学习，我不会让你们与同学竞争。
We expect all these retailers to compete on price and customer service, to deliver quickly, to take returns, and to do whatever it takes to satisfy us.
我们期望这些零售商为我们提供更优的价格，更好的服务和更快的邮递速度，以及一切让我们感到满意的事情。
So, do you really want to compete in that space?
所以，你真的想在这个环境中竞争么？
Earlier in the year he'd asked a select group of employees a question: If you were going to open a store to compete with Starbucks, how would you do it?
今年早些时候，他曾问一组挑选出来的员工一个问题：如果让你们去开一家和星巴克竞争的店，你们会怎么做？
I know that what these individuals who compete in these contests can do, and what I learned to do myself, is entirely a function of technique and training.
我知道，所有这些来参加比赛的个人以及我自己所能够做到的这些，都完全是出于技巧和训练。
But some colleges say they simply do not have enough money to compete with the new policies that are being announced.
但是一些大学说他们完全没有足够的资金同正在公布的新政策竞争。
In what may become the 21st century model of competition, contestants in the Google Science Fair do not have to be physically in the same place to compete with each other.
在这次可能成为21世纪模式的竞赛中，谷歌科技博览会的参赛者不必亲临现场参加较量，只要能够上网并且有想象力就足够了。
To “compete” was to discover my own potential to do better, to hold my own self to a higher standard, to expect more of myself—and deliver.
完成的目的就是要发现自己能够做得更好的潜力，让自己达到一个更高的水平，去表现和发现更多的自己。
Reading processes compete with each other to use the channel, as do writing processes.
读取进程彼此竞争使用的通道，写入进程也一样。
I believe this does help explain why by the time I finished high school, my interest in mathematics was beginning to compete with a desire to do something useful for society.
我相信这可以帮助解释为什么我高中毕业时，我对数学的兴趣开始与做一些对社会有用的事打架。
On the contrary, people compete in costly “arms races”, knowing that if they do not work harder, they will lose their standing to someone who does.
相反，人们知道一旦不努力工作，自己的地位便会为其他努力工作的人所取代，因而在这种造成损失的“军备竞赛”中相互竞争。
How do you keep up with the tightly defined (and refined) movies, TV shows, and video games that you've got to compete with in the media marketplace?
如何跟上与媒体市场中与您竞争的严格定义(和制作精良)的电影、电视剧和视频游戏？
Now, the two nations will now compete to land a man on the moon -both have announced plans to do it by around 2020.
如今这两个国家将争先让宇航员登上月球——两国都宣布计划在2020年左右做到。
Now, the two nations will now compete to land a man on the moon -both have announced plans to do it by around 2020.
如今这两个国家将争先让宇航员登上月球——两国都宣布计划在2020年左右做到。
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